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📚 Minds In Design – Where Stories Come Alive on Your Terms
Welcome, reader.
This isn’t an ordinary bookstore. It’s not a shelf of titles arranged to be skimmed, compared, and forgotten. What you’ve stepped into is something else entirely: a living archive of words, feelings, and haunted fragments of human experience.
Here at Minds In Design, every book, every poem, every letter is more than a product. It’s a companion, an echo, a keepsake. These aren’t works created to fit into a mold. They are stories without permission slips, poetry without censorship, voices that carry weight long after the last line.
I’m Makitia Thompson; the author, storyteller, and heart behind this world you’re about to walk through. And this is not just a store. It’s a place to linger. To feel. To return to when life frays at the edges, when you’re hungry for something haunting, raw, or beautiful.
Here, you’ll find collections that don’t compete with one another but instead open doors into entirely different rooms of imagination. Step through one, and you’ll always find another waiting. Some are filled with ghosts. Some with truth. Some with fragments of love and memory you’ll want to carry like pocket stones.
This is your space to wander, to discover, to return again and again. Because stories don’t just end, they grow, shift, and wait for you to pick them back up. Shop around and find your story The Minds In Design Store
✨ The Story Collection – Where Words Linger
Step into words that refuse to let go.
The Story Collection is where all corners of my writing meet: haunting short stories, raw character letters, intimate poetry, and striking quotations that distill emotion into a single line. It’s a collection built not to be read once and shelved, but to be lived with, revisited, and felt at different points in your own journey.
Here, you’ll wander through entire worlds in a short story, quick glimpses into lives that might be yours, might be ghosts of others, or might be possibilities of what could have been. You’ll sit with the confessions of characters who whisper from the margins, opening their secrets to you in letters that read like real conversations. You’ll find poems that pierce directly into the soul, and quotations so sharp and true they follow you long after you’ve closed the page.
More than just words, these pieces are companions. They will wait for you in moments of heartbreak, celebration, loneliness, or renewal. They are fragments of memory you can pick up whenever you need them most.
Featured Works in This Collection:
Paper Ghosts – A haunting series of letters from unforgettable characters. These aren’t mere fictional notes, they are confessions, scars, and whispered truths left behind like evidence of lives lived too hard or too briefly. If you’ve ever longed to peek into the secret heart of a character, this is your invitation.
It Hurt Beautifully – Poetry that doesn’t flinch. Here, pain is not hidden but laid bare until it transforms into something strange and luminous. Every line carries both wound and healing. It’s for readers who need to know that beauty can survive even the deepest breaking.
It Ended By Beginning – Thirty-two short stories, each one a shard of love, loss, and resilience. Read one at a time, or all in a single sitting. Each is bite-sized yet soul-deep, perfect for moments when you crave both brevity and meaning.
Paper Ghosts – A haunting series of letters from unforgettable characters. These aren’t mere fictional notes, they are confessions, scars, and whispered truths left behind like evidence of lives lived too hard or too briefly. If you’ve ever longed to peek into the secret heart of a character, this is your invitation.
It Hurt Beautifully – Poetry that doesn’t flinch. Here, pain is not hidden but laid bare until it transforms into something strange and luminous. Every line carries both wound and healing. It’s for readers who need to know that beauty can survive even the deepest breaking.
It Ended By Beginning – Thirty-two short stories, each one a shard of love, loss, and resilience. Read one at a time, or all in a single sitting. Each is bite-sized yet soul-deep, perfect for moments when you crave both brevity and meaning.
The Story Collection is not meant to be finished. It is meant to follow you, echo inside you, and remind you of what it feels like to be alive.
✨ The Mind’s Keepsake – A Living Archive
If the Story Collection is a wide-open door, The Mind’s Keepsake is a box you keep on your shelf, something you return to, open carefully, and find that its contents have shifted with time.
This is not just a book series. It’s an ever-growing archive of thought, feeling, and reflection. Each volume gathers together quotations, micro-poems, passages, and reflections from across my body of work: novels, short stories, personal writings, and more.
No two volumes are the same, and yet each one carries the same heartbeat: a search for light in shadow, beauty in pain, meaning in the smallest corners of life.
It began with The Mind’s Keepsake: Makitia's Quotation Book, Volume; a treasury of lines pulled straight from my writing, distilled into their purest form. Since then, the series has blossomed, with each new book adding another layer to the mosaic of words Minds In Design continues to build. Some are tender, some haunting, some raw, some quietly luminous.
Featured Work in This Collection:
The Mind’s Keepsake: Makitia's Quotation Book, Volume 1 – More than just quotes, this is a mirror. A book that lets you carry fragments of poetry, thought, and emotional resonance into your day, ready to be revisited whenever you need them. Writers use it for inspiration. Readers use it for reflection. Everyone finds themselves somewhere between its lines.
Volume 2 Glass Gardens and Volume three Silent Rivers are currently available in the collection
The Mind’s Keepsake: Makitia's Quotation Book, Volume 1 – More than just quotes, this is a mirror. A book that lets you carry fragments of poetry, thought, and emotional resonance into your day, ready to be revisited whenever you need them. Writers use it for inspiration. Readers use it for reflection. Everyone finds themselves somewhere between its lines.
Volume 2 Glass Gardens and Volume three Silent Rivers are currently available in the collection
This collection is not one you finish. It is one you grow with.
Each new volume will continue to add to the living archive, ensuring that no matter when you arrive at the Minds In Design store, there will always be another Keepsake waiting for you.
✨ The Where Time Can’t Exist Collection - Ghosts of Burrington
There are stories that entertain. There are stories that distract. And then there are stories that haunt you long after you’ve closed the book.
The Where Time Can’t Exist series is that last kind.
At its heart is Rebecca “Beck” Escarra, an aspiring filmmaker who stumbles upon Burrington, a town frozen in the year 1827, officially abandoned yet terrifyingly alive in its own way. At night, its streets and houses stir back into existence, populated by residents doomed to relive their grief, betrayals, and secrets.
As Beck unravels the truth of the massacre that binds them all, she discovers Burrington isn’t just cursed, it’s hurting. And it has chosen her to face its pain.
This series is a blend of gothic horror, mystery, sci-fi, and raw emotional drama. It is about memory, grief, the horrors we inherit, and the choices we make between exploiting stories and healing them.
Featured Works in This Collection:
Until Time Remembers – The book that begins it all. Beck’s first step into Burrington, into the ghosts who mirror her own fractures, and into a story about what it costs to remember.
The Founding Mayor - Through arrogance, vision, and meticulous control, Silas prepares to set forth on a journey that will shape more than just streets and buildings; it will sow the seeds of mysteries yet to come.
The Withering Orchard - As the trees watch and the wind whispers, Anabeth must navigate a town that does not forgive, a family that forgets, and a presence at the edge of the orchard that feels human and yet something far older, far stranger.
Until Time Remembers – The book that begins it all. Beck’s first step into Burrington, into the ghosts who mirror her own fractures, and into a story about what it costs to remember.
The Founding Mayor - Through arrogance, vision, and meticulous control, Silas prepares to set forth on a journey that will shape more than just streets and buildings; it will sow the seeds of mysteries yet to come.
The Withering Orchard - As the trees watch and the wind whispers, Anabeth must navigate a town that does not forgive, a family that forgets, and a presence at the edge of the orchard that feels human and yet something far older, far stranger.
The Where Time Can’t Exist collection is for readers who want to be unsettled, undone, and left with questions that follow them. Burrington is not just a setting. It is a wound, a character, and a mirror for the grief we carry. Step inside, and you may never leave unchanged.
✨ From the King – Confronting America’s Darkest Souls
Not every story is about ghosts. Some are about the horrors of the living.
For over four decades, Cole King has stared into the eyes of America’s darkest souls and asked the questions no one else would dare. Murderers. Predators. Politicians with blood on their hands. Celebrities wrapped in scandal. His interviews are not conversations, they’re confrontations.
This collection, From the King, is a fictional exploration of power, truth, and the psychology of corruption and violence. Written in the raw, unfiltered style of true crime interviews, these works give you the unsettling intimacy of sitting in the same room with the people most would rather avoid.
But it’s not just about the interview subjects. The deeper you read, the more you begin to glimpse the man holding the microphone, and the cost of carrying everyone else’s truth.
Featured Works in This Collection:
The Killer Across the Street – Cole King’s chilling interview with a murderer who was hiding in plain sight.
The Cannister Trials – Exposing the human cost of a tragedy the world wanted to forget.
The Hidden Director’s Cut – Behind the curtain of corruption and fame.
Interviewing Ms. Hartmann – A collision of power and truth, one of Cole King’s most unforgettable confrontations.
The Killer Across the Street – Cole King’s chilling interview with a murderer who was hiding in plain sight.
The Cannister Trials – Exposing the human cost of a tragedy the world wanted to forget.
The Hidden Director’s Cut – Behind the curtain of corruption and fame.
Interviewing Ms. Hartmann – A collision of power and truth, one of Cole King’s most unforgettable confrontations.
This collection is not comfortable. It is not meant to be. It is meant to remind you that horror wears many faces, and sometimes the scariest ones are not ghosts at all, but people.
🖤 Why Shop with Minds In Design?
There are countless bookstores in the world. You could find some of these titles elsewhere. But there is something different about choosing them here, in this space where they were first born.
Direct support for an indie author – Every purchase fuels more stories, more risks, and more creative freedom.
Affordable storytelling – Most works here cost less than a coffee, but will stay with you far longer.
Exclusive access – Some releases are only available here, and nowhere else.
A living archive – This store is not static. It grows, changes, and expands with time. Return tomorrow, return next year, there will always be something new waiting.
This is not just commerce. It’s community. It’s proof that stories outside the mainstream can thrive when readers like you believe in them. Minds In Design
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Closing Words
Thank you for showing up. Thank you for lingering. Thank you for believing in stories that don’t always play nice, don’t always fit the mold, but always carry a pulse.
The Minds In Design Store will always be here when you’re ready, a place where words don’t just sit on the shelf, but come alive on your terms.
Step inside. Wander. Take a story with you. And when you’re ready, come back, there will always be more waiting.
- Makitia Thompson
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